What made you UNHAPPY today!

[Stuart Monument]

@Bibs if you contact the council,  they will send you a claim form and will refund you the Tyre cost 

[Bibs]

Already done thanks mate

[Giniw]

Does that really work? You are lucky. I am not too sure it would work here ...

[Bibs]

I hope so! We pay them to maintain the roads and if they don't I think it's fair they cover the damage caused. 

I went back this evening to get a pic for their paperwork and an exact location. The road is maybe 3m wide there to give you some scale and that looks like a bit of someone elses car at the far end of the pothole.

[ChrisJ]

I think the situation is that if they haven't been notified about the pothole before you've hit it, they won't pay out on it.

[Chillidoggy]

Notify the council before you whack the claim in a day later.

[march]

I am actively starting to consider selling the Esprit purely because the council won't repair the damage to our lane at a cattle crossing (my only means of access to our home). I have tried for 3 years to get it repaired but they just delete the request and don't even give me a reason why. The road has broken up right the way across and drops up to 4 inches in places. It will possibly be this year that I cannot get the car out without damaging it.

The photo is from 4 years ago - after they repaired it the first time, they just put 2 runs of tarmac where the tyres go rather than repair it properly. This took lots of complaints and referral to an ombudsman before they would even do this. These repairs strangely enough did not last past the first winter and are long gone and the hole runs the full width of the lane and is a lot deeper. I complain each year and they ignore and it's not as if I have an alternative. Will be having one more attempt this spring. I really do not want to damage my car after the effort and expense to get it to state it is in now.

What I really find offensive is the amount of collective road tax Carina an I pay and the way the council feels it can treat me. The other bug bear is that our council threatens to take people to court if they attempt to fix the roads themselves!

[silverfrost]

Report that the road is unsafe Mark,  is the riverbank moving causing the problem ?

[Bibs]

Would it be an option to tractor some Type 1 down there later in the day and wonder who did it the next day? 

[silverfrost]

Looks like it would be lucky to last the day on that surface Bibs before it all got churned up and pushed/spilled off into the water sadly,  

I blame the farmers with those big tractors they have causing the wear 

 

[C8RKH]

Take your wife for a cycle. Push her off the bike causing massive injuries. Ambulance and hospitalisation for good measure and then sue the Council for negligemce with your years and years of reports, notifications etc as evidence that they knew the road was unsafe. They have a duty of care and it would be easy to show they had been negligent in assessing your complaints and reports, unless of course they had been out and inspected the road each time and properly recorded their findings and assessment.

 

Of course, a possible downside ( or upside depending on how you look at it ) could be that your missus will be non too impressed with you and not keen to engage in conversation, etcetera, etcetera...   

[Bibs]

5 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

Push her off the bike causing massive injuries

[andydclements]

I can't see a problem with getting potholes fixed. Here the only (decent) road in Norfolk has a pothole, and it appears that the Police are going to be out there with shovels and tampers.

"Delays are expected on the A11 as Norfolk Police deal with a 3ft wide pothole."

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/pothole-causes-delays-on-a11-1-5395552

[mayevora]

Devon ?

Edited February 15, 2018 by mayesprit

[silverfrost]

Angry pot hole man,  excuse the language 

 

[comem47]

What do you guys expect with these extreme low profile tires? (I call 'em "wagon wheels")    .  My S2 Esprit didn't have these problems    

There's the race track and then there's reality  

            

[Stuart Monument]

I had the council pay for a new tyre on my Mrs car last year and a new rad in my Porsche as a piece of road flicked up from the car in front and punctured it. Don’t worry sold the Porsche. It was a bit of a pain but worth pursuing 

[Bibs]

The A11 into Norfolk is awful, some monster potholes especially where the pigs and paintball place is. 

That said, I'd rather be there than on the M11 right now. Been stationary for an hour now, somewhere near Saffron Walden. 

[pete]

3 car pile up near Stansted airport

[Sparky]

I have a spare mother-in-law.  I'd be quite happy to loan her out for a serious injury if it's for a good cause.  Or a bad one.  Feck it, just take her.  Please.

[Alfa2Evora]

I currently have a 5-year agreed premium (subject to there being no major 'material changes' in the schedule) insurance policy for the non-Lotus cars on the household fleet. Even when I swapped-out our old MG ZT-T diesel dogmobile for a much newer and twice as powerful SAAB 9-3 a couple of months back, that wasn't even deemed significant enough of a change to affect the premium.

So when the annual renewal notice (for year 3 of the 5) arrived in the post this morning, I thought it would be no more than the formality it was this time last year - simply check the details and file the new certificate away. However, I couldn't help but notice that the 'premium due' figure this time around was somewhat different to the previous 2 - it had jumped up by over £100 on the sum that had initially been quoted and agreed.

Straight on the phone I went - fortunately my 'platinum customer' status furnishes me with a dedicated number that gets through to a human being within seconds rather than spending the rest of my life listening to a recording telling me that "your call is important to us; you are currently position 697 in the queue".

It transpires that there has in fact been a 'material change' of sufficient stature to trigger this renewal increase. Apparently my inability to move my 44-tonne truck out of the path of a C-Class Merc on the M74 one night last year when its driver fell asleep at the wheel and subsequently rammed into the back of my trailer makes me now a much higher risk to insurers,  .

Being the up-front chap I am, I informed my insurer at the time (as one is obliged to do) but thought little more about it other than to remember to plan my work rota around my 'witness for the prosecution' appearance at the forthcoming court case. Now my honesty has come back to bite and it's probably too late to try and recover the additional costs, more as a matter of principle than anything, from the 3rd party.

Do insurance companies just make these things up as they go along?

[Barrykearley]

That simply stinks

[Dan E]

David you have my sympathy about 5 years ago I bought an ex demo C350 estate I had, had it about 5 days when I parked it in London a chap got out of his car in an opposite side road which was on a hill and left his handbrake off which consequently ended up taking out the side of my car. So neither driver was in the car, then come renewal time I had a £100 uplift. How can that be 

[Barrykearley]

On the plus side - when I collected my S4 and won a speeding ticket on the way home it didn’t affect my premium at all. 

[C8RKH]

Downhill with a tail wind and in a 30 I presume.